---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290cc–32"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290cc–32"
heading: "Prohibition against certain false statements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290cc-32"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part C — Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness"
---

# §290cc–32. Prohibition against certain false statements

- (a) **In general—**
  - (1) A person may not knowingly make or cause to be made any false statement or representation of a material fact in connection with the furnishing of items or [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) for which amounts may be paid by a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) from payments received by the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under [section 290cc–21 of this title](/usc/42/290cc–21.md).
  - (2) A person with knowledge of the occurrence of any event affecting the right of the person to receive any amounts from payments made to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under [section 290cc–21 of this title](/usc/42/290cc–21.md) may not conceal or fail to disclose any such event with the intent of securing such an amount that the person is not authorized to receive or securing such an amount in an amount greater than the amount the person is authorized to receive.
- (b) **Criminal penalty for violation of prohibition—** Any person who violates a prohibition established in [subsection (a)](#a) may for each [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) be fined in accordance with [title 18](/usc/18.md) or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 532, as added Pub. L. 100–77, title VI, § 611(3), July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 521; amended Pub. L. 101–645, title V, § 511, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4732.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–645 amended section generally, substituting provisions relating to prohibition against certain false statements for provisions relating to failure to comply with agreements.